Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management

Part I. Neurostimulation: Spinal Cord.- 1. History of Neurostimulation.- 2. Patient Selection.- 3. Disease Indications.- 4. Preoperative Evaluation for Spinal Cord Stimulation.- 5. Perioperative Precautions for Infection Control.- 6. Needle Placement for Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation of the Back and Legs.- 7. Physician-guided Lead Placement: Driving the Lead to the Target Location.- 8. Stimulation of the Spinal Cord by Placement of Surgical-Based Paddle Leads.- 9. Programming Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems.- 10. Anchoring Percutaneous Leads During Permanent Device Placement.- 11. Tunneling Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems.- 12. Pocketing Techniques for Spinal Cord Stimulation and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.- 13. Wound Closure.- 14. Wound Healing.- 15. Complications of Spinal Cord Stimulation.- 16. Stimulation of the Nervous System to Treat Neuropathic Pain of the Foot.- 17. Sacral Nerve Root Stimulation for the Treatment of Pelvic and Rectal Pain.- 18. Selective Nerve Root Stimulation: Facilitating the Cephalocaudal "Retrograde" Method of Electrode Insertion.- 19. Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Anterior Abdominal Pain.- 20. Electromyographic/Somatosensory-Evoked Potential Monitoring During Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Stimulation.- 21. Electromyographic/Somatosensory Evoked Potential Monitoring During Sacral Neuromodulation.- 22. The Future of Neurostimulation.- 23. Spinal Cord Stimulation of the Dorsal Root Ganglion for the Treatment of Pain.- 24. High-Frequency Stimulation of the Spinal Cord.- 25. Burst Stimulation: An Innovative Waveform Strategy for Spinal Cord Stimulation.- Part II. Neurostimulation: Peripheral Nerve and Peripheral Nerve Field.- 26. Stimulation of the Extraspinal Peripheral Nervous System.- 27. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Knee Pain.- 28. Neurostimulation of the Upper Extremity by Conventional Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.- 29. Ultrasound Guidance for the Placement of Peripheral Nerve StimulationDevices.- 30.

Timothy R. Deer, MD, DABPM

Editor

Dr. Deer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for Pain Relief, Inc. in Charleston, West Virginia and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown. He is President-Elect of the International Neuromodulation Society and a former member of the board of directors of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He serves on the editorial committee of the journals Neuromodulation, Pain Medicine, and Pain Physician. Dr. Deer is Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches: the AMERICAN ACADEMY of PAIN MEDICINE Textbook on Patient Management (Springer, 2013).



Jason E. Pope, MD

Associate Editor

Dr. Pope is the President of Summit Pain Alliance in Santa Rosa, California. He has recently been appointed to the North American Neuromodulation Society board as a Director-at-Large and serves as Secretary of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. During residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he served as faculty with a dual appointment at the Veteran Affairs Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. He completed fellowship training in pain medicine at The Cleveland Clinic which subsequently invited to join the faculty as Associate Staff.